| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 720 pages
...according to her evidence the force of the car drove her against and over the suitcase. We cannot say, as a matter of law, that she was guilty of contributory negligence. Dr. Kunz, defendant in error's attending physician, who performed the two operations on her for hernia,... | |
| Law - 1885 - 544 pages
...of business and sat down upon the stairs near by in the shade to rest, does not authorize us to say as a matter of law that she was guilty of contributory negligence. Murray v. MoShane, 52 Md. 217- When facts and circumstances, though undisputed, are ambiguous, and... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 764 pages
...circumstances she fell and was injured by reason of the condition of this walk. How then can it be said as a matter of law that she was guilty of contributory negligence? As to the second proposition, that there was no notice express or implied to the defendant of the condition... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1106 pages
...have known it by the exercise of ordinary care." The court held in her case that they could not say, as a matter of law, that she was guilty of contributory negligence. [8] Nor can we say in this case, upon the evidence produced, that the plaintiff, as a matter of law,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1164 pages
...the time was a matter about which fairminded men might honestly differ, and hence it cannot be said, as a matter of law, that she was guilty of contributory negligence or assumed the risk. [6] It Is next argued that the court erred in instructing the jury. With respect... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1206 pages
...105 Mo. 270, 284, 285, 15 SW Ö83, »86. Also, as stated in this and other cases, before we can hold, as a matter of law, that she was guilty of contributory negligence, the evidence must be such as to permit of no other conclusion than that she was negligent, giving plaintiff... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1116 pages
...A pedestrian having waited until an approaching street car stopped a yard away it could not be said as a matter of law that she was guilty of contributory negligence in advaneing'to cross ahead of it, nor could it be said that the rnotorman, in starting the car so... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 686 pages
...reasonable time to get her child. If she acted with reasonable diligence to do this, then it cannot be said as a matter of law that she was guilty of contributory negligence which would defeat her right to recover. The court gave a number of instructions to the jury, both... | |
| Missouri. Courts of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 800 pages
...next question to be considered in the case. From the statement of facts above given it cannot be said, as a matter of law, that she was guilty of contributory negligence. It has frequently been decided by the supreme court of this state, and by other courts, that it is not,... | |
| Railroad law - 1899 - 942 pages
...rods, she saw no train until she was struck by the locomotive. Notwithstanding her testimony, the court held, as a matter of law, that she was guilty of contributory negligence, on the theory either that she did not look and listen, as the law requires, or that. having looked... | |
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